JavaScript Chat Summary – October 30th

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Meeting time adjustment

Due to DST and starting next week, the #core-js meeting time will be moved to 14h UTC.

Node 10.x LTS

A new LTS version of Node.JS has been released. As agreed upon on previous meetings, WordPress is going to follow the LTS schedule of Node.JS which means, we’re going to start using this new LTS version in local environments (Gutenberg and WordPress).

The systems team has been also notified to upgrade the WP.org servers to Node 10.13 LTS.

E2E Tests in Core

End 2 End tests are automatic tests simulating user interactions using a browser in a production environment. Gutenberg uses Google Puppeteer and a docker environment to run a suite of various e2e tests that include:

Creating and publish content,

Writing Flow,

Accessibility tests,

Extensibility tests.

We discussed during the meeting approaches to make the E2E Test setup and the test suite available for:

Plugin Authors: to setup their own e2e tests,

Core: To validate that the Gutenberg integration is working properly and allow other parts of WordPress Core to be tested using this setup.

Action items

Explore making the e2e test setup available as an npm package. cc @gziolo

Explore making a package containing the Gutenberg e2e test suite to be able to run it in Core.

Shorter-term, we discussed the possibility of duplicating the tests in Core to validate the Gutenberg integration and package updates.

If you have some availability and would like to help with any of these items, please let us know in the comments.